This Week's Corrections Connection
Thursday | April 17, 2008
EDITOR'S CORNER
This week we take readers to Iraq, where Indiana DOC Commissioner, David Donahue recently visited. Donahue was asked by the U.S. Army to survey the detainee facilities around Iraq. What Donahue found was both surprising and inspiring.
Jim
Editor, Corrections.com
FEATURED STORY
On the front lines
By Ann Coppola
Corrections.com Reporter
Surveying wartime corrections
It was mid-December of last year, and David Donahue had been in Iraq for several days. Standing inside a makeshift office at Camp Bucca, the United States Army’s largest military detention center, the Indiana Department of Correction Commissioner was still adjusting to daily life in a war zone among 20,000 Iraqi detainees and thousands of soldiers.
Colonel James Brown, the commander at Camp Bucca, walked into the office where Donahue and a modestly decorated artificial Christmas tree were waiting. The intense and highly energetic Brown had someone to introduce to Donahue that might help him to feel more at home. Full Story
READER FEEDBACK
Regarding Dungeons for dollars, 4/7/08
I appreciate people like you who inform the public with the truth and not more B.S. I am an African American who is trying very hard to keep my grandson out of this horrible nightmare. It seems as if our race doesn't care anymore and that they are so comfortable with their lives.
Anyone can become incarcerated these days, and it appears as if everything is now a felony. What can be done about this before it is too late? If we get a new president, can these big corporations be dealt with? I like the article and look forward to reading more.
AB
We are greatly dissatisfied and disappointed with Corrections.com publishing a highly inaccurate, poorly sourced and egregiously biased OP/Ed. The writer’s agenda is clear: to undermine the privatized corrections industry, treating the subject in a wholesale manner without regard to any of the benefits, best practices or innovations achieved through public-private partnership.
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CAREER WATCH
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EVENTS
American Jail Association Training Conference & Jail Expo
The American Jail Association invites you to join them at their 27th annual Training Conference & Jail Expo, May 4-8, 2008, in Sacramento, California.
Direct supervision and management, NIC legal issues, defusing violence, and many more topics will be discussed. A session for first time attendees and a board of directors installation ceremony will also be featured during the week’s events.
For more information, see the exciting AJA conference overview, or register here.
Don’t miss the American Jail Association’s 27th annual Training Conference & Jail Expo, May 4-8, 2008, in Sacramento, California.
Reaching behind the walls - Mental Health & Workplace Wellness for Corrections Staff
Date: 5/8 - 5/9/08
Hosted by Desert Waters Correctional Outreach. Topics include, Signs & ways to intervene with staff struggling with mental health issues, Supervising stressed staff, Staff suicide, and more.
Organizational Training in Anger Management
Date: 5/8/08
This four-hour continuing education training is designed for certified Anderson & Anderson® Anger Management providers interested in offering organizational training. Read more.
Verbal Judo - Excellence in Tactical Communications
Date: 5/12/08
Goals Of This Course: Conflict Management, Enhance Personal Safety, Diffuse Potentially Dangerous Situations, Lessen Stress at Work and at Home, and more
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968), pivotal leader of the American civil rights movement
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